Routing Protocols and Concepts – Chapter 10

Link-State Routing Protocols. Objectives: Describe the basic features & concepts of link-state p routing protocols. Distance vector routing protocols are like road signs because routers must make preferred path decisions based on a distance or metric to a network. Link-state routing protocols are more like a road map because they create a topological map of the network and each router uses this map to determine the shortest path to each network. The ultimate objective is that every router receives all of the link-state information about all other routers in the routing area. With this link-state information, each router can...